Burma · Myanmar

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Myanmar · Mercantile / Chettiar lineage

Memory-only node. Pre-1962 Indian community ~1M, largely expelled after 1962 nationalisation. Chettiar mercantile networks (Nattukottai Chettiars) documented through EAP1615 business ledgers. National Archives inaccessible post-2021 coup.

Population — as cited

Not reliably enumerated post-1962 nationalisation

Myanmar 2014 Census (UNFPA-supported); no Tamil disaggregation · 2014

TLTE never aggregates a "Tamil population" or "Tamil GDP" figure. Numbers are cited verbatim from the named source.

Memory custodians

·EAP1615 — Chettiar mercantile account keeping (Burma + Malaya)
·Sean Turnell — The Chettiars in Burma (Macquarie WP 05-12, 2005)
·David West Rudner — Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India (UC Press, 1994)

Tamil-language press / cultural bodies

· No active Tamil press in Myanmar

Outlet names only. Never journalist names. See the Press Freedom Desk for protection rationale.

Relations to other nodes

Tamil Nadumercantile network— Nattukottai Chettiar banking (EAP1615)

Anchor citations

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